Sunday, June 29, 2008

My igoogle page has a page element called 'famous poems'. It displays a new well- known poem everyday. Most of them are ones I have never read or heard of before, (which does not mean they aren't famous, it just means that I don't really know many poems) but the other day I was plesantly surprised to find William Wordsworth's Daffodils on my igoogle homepage.
I could almost smell the crisp new pages of my 7th Standard English Textbook and see the poem printed in it with markings by pencil as the teacher pointed out the figures of speech and rhyme scheme of the poem. Brought back a lot of memories...

Daffodils
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee;
A poet could not be but gay,
In such a jocund company!
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

- William Wordsworth

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